IST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF NUTRITIONISTS

Croatian Association of Nutritionists, sponsored by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatian, the City of Zagreb, Osijek-Baranja County and the City of Osijek as well as its co-organizers the Association Nutrition Balance and international biopharmaceutical company AbbVie Ltd. organized the Ist International Congress of Nutritionists “Metabolic syndrome" in Osijek from 09th to 10th of November 2013 in Hotel Waldinger. The Congress was attended by more than 100 nutritionists, general practitioners / family medicine doctors, food technologists - nutritionists, kinesiologists, pediatritians, specialists in epidemiology, public health specialists, pharmacists, nurses and specialists in internal medicine from university hospitals, Institutes of Public Health, Health centers, Food and pharmaceutical industries, General and County hospitals, Specialist clinics, Faculty of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology from Croatia as well as nutritionists, dieticians and pharmacists from the Republic of Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia. A selection of excellent topics from leading experts in the fields of medicine, biochemistry, nutrition and kinesiology on "Metabolic syndrome" have contributed to the acquisition of new knowledge and achievements in order to create multidisciplinary teams in the treatment of metabolic disorders. Nineteen scientific and professional papers published in the Proceedings of the Ist International Congress of Nutritionists "Metabolic syndrome", supports the transfer of knowledge from various fields of medicine, nutrition, biochemistry and kinesiology in developing a sophisticated approach to the treatment of the increasing rise in metabolic disorders.